November 30, 2019
At a gallery in Philadelphia, artists assemble for a performance that interrogates the ideology of counterinsurgency that was developed...
column
June 14, 2019
Brown eyes meet brown eyes. His do not make conversation with mine. They look, but they don’t see. Not me, anyway. Pa. And me. His were in...
Reviews
September 29, 2017
Every morning on my walk to work, I lift my eyes at the top of a long, sloping hill, and check the flagpole. Since I got back to work this...
Opinion
April 3, 2017
On May 17, 1974, a series of car bombs exploded without warning on the streets of Dublin and nearby Monaghan, Ireland. The bombs wreaked...
Conversations
February 4, 2017
Established by the United Nations in 1993, when war was still raging in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the International Criminal Tribunal for the...
blog
July 14, 2016
Yesterday afternoon, El Salvador’s Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that could change the face of justice in the country. The court...
blog
February 7, 2016
Last month, a court in Spain issued a request for the arrest of seventeen former military officers connected to crimes committed during El...
blog
July 31, 2015
Two years ago, I was riding my bike through Prospect Park in Brooklyn. As I was picking up speed on the downhill slope, a police car...
blog
March 11, 2015
At Insight Crime , Patrick Corcoran has a piece up arguing that Mexico needs to rethink how it pursues leaders of the country's drug trade...